Horseshoe



(N0 ModeL) T. PHILLIPS, E. BOUOHARD & T. GHARBONNEAU.

HQRSESHOE. I No. 336,154. Patented Feb. 16, 1886.

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THOMAS PHILLIPS, ELI BOUOHARD, AND TREFFLE OHARBONNEAU, OF IVORGESTER,MASSACHUSETTS.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,154, dated February16, 1886.

Application filed January 6, 1886. Serial No. 187,756.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS PHILLIPS, ELI BOUCHARD, and TREEELECHARBONNEAU, all residents of the city and county of Worcester, State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improved Horseshoe, ofwhich the following is a specification.

Our invention belongs to that class of shoes having removable calkscapable of being renewed without removing the shoe from the foot of thehorse.

Its nature and principles of construction and operation are fully shownin the following description of the accompanying drawings, whichillustrate a shoe embodying our invention.

In said drawings, Figurel is a plan or view ofthe bottom ofthe shoe withthe calks in place. Fig. 2 is a side or edge view, as indicated by thearrow 1), of one of the heels with itsscrew and calk removed; and Fig. 3is a View of the front or toe calk, as indicated by the arrow a, withits screw removed and calk lifted.

The same letters indicate the same parts wherever they occur.

A is the shoe; B, the toe-caik; C U, the heelcalks; e e 6, heads ofbolts or screws holding the ealks to the shoe.

At the toe of the shoe we make a recess as long as it is desirable tohave the toe-calk, cutting it about onehalf the thickness of the shoe,as shown in Fig. 3, and leave a boss or thimble, D, long enough to reachnearly through the base of the toecalk, and having a threaded holeextending through it and the shoe, in which the bolt or screw is fittedto hold the calk in place. In this recess we also make two holes nearits front and ends, as indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 3. Theealk, which may be of any of the common forms in use, has a baseattached, fitted to fill (No model.)

the abovedescribed recess, and with a hole fitting the thimble D, andalso two studs fitting the holes in the shoe, as shown in Fig. 3.

E is the screw or bolt, fitted to the thimble D, and having its head 6large enough to bear onthe base of the calk around the thimble. Theheel-ealks are similarly fitted in their re eesses,excepting that onestud is deemed sufficient, as shown in Fig. 2, though two might be used,and the toe-call; might be fitted with two thimbles and screws, ifdesirable, for large shoes.-

The body of the shoe is made in any of the common forms designed to befastened to the horses foot, the calks being removable by looseningtheir screws, so thatlong sharp calks can be easily put on for an icytime,and short or smoother ones for pavements or summer wear be easilysubstituted when desired.

The use of the thimble gives a long held for the screw, and its sideswith the studs and ends of the recesses to which the base of the calk iswell fitted all insure a firm solid union when the bolt is tightened.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to patent, 1s

The removable-call; shoe described, having its calks fitting inrecesses, and provided with one or more studs fitting holes in the shoe,and an opening fitting over the thimble or nut on the shoe, with a boltor screw holding them firmly in place, all constructed and operatingsubstantially as and for the purposes as above set forth.

THOMAS PHILLIPS. ELI BOUGHARD. TREFELE OI-IARBONNEAU.

IVitnesses:

O. H. ARNOLD, J. GREENE.

